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Re: The religious meaning of ``Jagannatha''
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To: soc-religion-hindu@uunet.uu.net
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Subject: Re: The religious meaning of ``Jagannatha''
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From: gopal@ecf.toronto.edu (GOPAL Ganapathiraju Sree Ramana)
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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 11:38:45 -0500
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Newsgroups: soc.religion.hindu
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Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
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In article <4e16gk$m1e@babbage.ece.uc.edu>,
Vijay Sadananda Pai <vijaypai@mandolin.rice.edu> wrote:
[...]
>So, Lord Brahmaa installed the Deities in the temple & then asked
>Indradyumna if he would like a boon, since he was such an exalted
>devotee. Indradyumna responded -- this temple should be open for all
>but 3 hours of the day (*), and in exchange we will offer the Lord
>some huge number of preparations per day. The boon was granted.
[...]
>Vijay
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>* That schedule is not followed today; the temple is supposed to be
>closed only from 11PM - 2AM every day, but in the past two hundred years
>or so, the only time it followed that schedule was when Bhaktivinoda
>Thakur was the chief administrator there for some years. Nowadays the
>first offering *might* happen at around 7 or 8 AM.
i have a suspicion that Brahma might have modified his boon
to Sri Venkateswara temple at tirumala!!![where the temple rarely
closes for over 3 hours a day]
